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Monday, December 08, 2008

the most wonderful time of the year?

First off, thanks so much for your sweet comments on my Christmas quilt! You guys are so encouraging. I appreciate each and every comment that you left. :)

While I may be a fast quilter, I am slow in decorating my house for Christmas. I finally started-this morning. And did I mention that my kids are NOT is school today? Yes, that is a recipe for disaster. I realize this. Which leads me to my story....So we were decorating the tree. My kids are 2 1/2, 5 and 8. They are VERY excited for Christmas. And they all wanted to help. The entire time. First, we assembled the tree. The older 2 helped spread out the branches and hooked them on to the tree. Then I put the lights on. I plugged them in to see if they all work. They were fine. So I strung them on (the worst part of putting up the tree, if you ask me). And then we put on the paper chain that the kids made over the weekend. Then came the ornaments. A LOT of ornaments. When we were ALMOST done, I was putting an ornament on a branch and accidentally knicked one of the lights. ALL the lights went out. Every single one. Lovely. And to top it all of, the song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" came on the radio. I kid you not. Oh, the irony. It might BE the most wonderful time of the year. But for today, it sure doesn't FEEL like the most wonderful time of the year.Oh, well, at least my new tree skirt looks pretty under my tree that won't light up.

your tree lights may have failed....but you have seriously lighted my day....I am so inspired by your creativity and the impressive number of beautiful quilts you have made! I just ordered the pattern you used for your Christmas quilt....Thank you so much for the inspiration....!

Tree is pretty even if the lights are not working...perhaps check the fuse since they are quit working. The paper chain is so colorful...I am sure the kiddos are excited...making those memories for sure!

Oh my! Well I hope you were at least able to get a laugh out of the irony of it all! Last year I had gotten my cut tree all put up, strung ornaments, decorated and found that the stand had a huge leak! We had to get a new one and try lifting the tree out fully decorated into the new one! We tried really hard to laugh about it!!Cheers!

Oh I have had that happen. I think thats why it usually takes me until Christmas eve to put the darn thing up. Not this year though, I have the Chrissy spirit back. I love your tree skirt. That is on the list for next year. Merry Christmas to you and your family Amandajean. I have had great pleasure and have learnt lots from your wonderful blog over the past year. Thank you.

Here is a hint - get a tree disposal bag (for real trees ya know?) and then leave the lights on your tree, put the bag over the tree, from the top down, store it in the garage that way. WAH LAH! :D Your beautiful tree skirt lights up the room, who needs those electric lights ;)

Oh I can definitely relate to the light thing .. last year it was 'the most wonderful time of the year' to get the lights working and they were brand new too! They finally all get working and then bit by bit, my cmas tree experienced a black out section by section .. i'm the type of person that loves a gazillion lights .. I just gave up at that point LOL .. this year we went to buy lights and i want white ones .. think I could find them?? nope .. so the hunt continues and the tree's not up nor will it be, until i find some lights!

My mom was helping me decorate our tree on Sunday. We just finished putting all the lights up when I looked at her and said, "Ut-oh! We forgot to see if they work!" But thankfully they do! Your tree skirt looks fabulous. I have had my eye out for one to buy, but now that I see yours, nothing is going to compare! Bummer for me!

ohhhhh- so sorry about those lights! Yea prelite trees are all fine and dandy except when the lights wont work! Then What! Love the tree skirt! We so need a new one but every time Christmas comes around we never have the extra cash for one...or the time for me to make it!

WOW! A friend and I got together last weekend and we made ouselves a tree skirt using your tutorial...and i just have to tell you how happy we are....the only thing we changed was we did "wonky" log cabins....keep an eye on my blog for photos...I made paper butterflies to cover my tree...not sure how my friend has decorated hers...lzilulu xox australia

That tree skirt looks amazing and makes me realise how bare and boring the base of my tree looks! Good luck with the lights and three cheers for the little helpers - that's what Christmas is all about!

I'm so sorry about the Christmas lights! They can be so frustrating. I let my husband do the lights while I bake some cookies with the kids. This keeps all of our frustrations to a minimum! Then we have something to snack on while we decorate the rest of the tree.

Your tree skirt is gorgeous! It's making me want some more red and green and white fabric.....

My heart feels for you, even though I laughed all the way through your story. I knew what was coming, you see, because it's happened to us all. In my case, it involed a few too many glasses of glogg, and a tree falling over to the tune of "Silent Night."

We have had that happen with the lights... we ended up pulling everything off the tree... fixing the lights and then redecorating the tree the next day. The kids loved it... mom and dad not so much *smiles*

i think i would have cried! bbut your right the tree skirt looks really nice, we have a train going around the bottom of my tree and the dogs love to chase it! i can see our tree falling over before christmas :)

Ooooh, crazy Christmas lights! I just can't deal with them. Hubby doesn't do any decorating, but if I have trouble with the lights I just hand them over to them and fortunately he fixes them. Your tree skirt looks FABULOUS!!!

My Christmas memories are full of little disasters like this one (right now, I'm thinking of the time our dog ate the head off of the camel in our family heirloom manger set from Austria). Hopefully, you'll be able to look back on things like this and laugh, although it's not so easy to do so at the time, is it?LOVE the tree skirt.

I made a tree skirt, very (very!) vaguely following your tutorial. Yours is amazing, mine is fun and not nearly as complex (or well sewn LOL), but I thank you for the Tut and wish you and your family a Merry Christmas! (and I hope you get the lights working again!)